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Behavioral types in programming languages
A recent trend in programming language research is to use behav- ioral type theory to ensure various correctness properties of large- scale, communication-intensive systems. Behavioral types encompass concepts such as interfaces, communication protocols, contracts, and choreography. The successful application of behavioral types requires a solid understanding of several practical aspects, from their represen- tation in a concrete programming language, to their integration with other programming constructs such as methods and functions, to de- sign and monitoring methodologies that take behaviors into account. This survey provides an overview of the state of the art of these aspects, which we summarize as the pragmatics of behavioral types
Intruder deducibility constraints with negation. Decidability and application to secured service compositions
The problem of finding a mediator to compose secured services has been
reduced in our former work to the problem of solving deducibility constraints
similar to those employed for cryptographic protocol analysis. We extend in
this paper the mediator synthesis procedure by a construction for expressing
that some data is not accessible to the mediator. Then we give a decision
procedure for verifying that a mediator satisfying this non-disclosure policy
can be effectively synthesized. This procedure has been implemented in CL-AtSe,
our protocol analysis tool. The procedure extends constraint solving for
cryptographic protocol analysis in a significative way as it is able to handle
negative deducibility constraints without restriction. In particular it applies
to all subterm convergent theories and therefore covers several interesting
theories in formal security analysis including encryption, hashing, signature
and pairing.Comment: (2012
Decision Taking versus Action Determination
Decision taking is discussed in the context of the role it may play for
various types of agents, and it is contrasted with action determination. Some
remarks are made about the role of decision taking and action determination in
the ongoing debate concerning the reverse polder development of the hertogin
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On Global Types and Multi-Party Session
Global types are formal specifications that describe communication protocols
in terms of their global interactions. We present a new, streamlined language
of global types equipped with a trace-based semantics and whose features and
restrictions are semantically justified. The multi-party sessions obtained
projecting our global types enjoy a liveness property in addition to the
traditional progress and are shown to be sound and complete with respect to the
set of traces of the originating global type. Our notion of completeness is
less demanding than the classical ones, allowing a multi-party session to leave
out redundant traces from an underspecified global type. In addition to the
technical content, we discuss some limitations of our language of global types
and provide an extensive comparison with related specification languages
adopted in different communities
Designing normative open virtual enterprises
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in
Enterprise Information Systems on 23/03/2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17517575.2015.1036927.[EN] There is an increasing interest on developing virtual enterprises in order to deal with
the globalisation of the economy, the rapid growth of information technologies and the
increase of competitiveness. In this paper we deal with the development of normative
open virtual enterprises (NOVEs). They are systems with a global objective that are
composed of a set of heterogeneous entities and enterprises that exchange services
following a specific normative context. In order to analyse and design systems of this
kind the multi-agent paradigm seems suitable because it offers a specific solution for
supporting the social and contractual relationships between enterprises and for formalising
their business processes. This paper presents how the Regulated Open Multiagent
systems (ROMAS) methodology, an agent-oriented software methodology, can
be used to analyse and design NOVEs. ROMAS offers a complete development
process that allows identifying and formalising of the structure of NOVEs, their
normative context and the interactions among their members. The use of ROMAS is
exemplified by means of a case study that represents an automotive supply chain.This work was partially supported by the projects [PROMETEOII/2013/019], [TIN2012-36586-C03-01], [FP7-29493], [TIN2011-27652-C03-00] and [CSD2007-00022], and the CASES project within the 7th European Community Framework Programme [grant agreement number 294931].Garcia Marques, ME.; Giret Boggino, AS.; Botti Navarro, VJ. (2016). Designing normative open virtual enterprises. Enterprise Information Systems. 10(3):303-324. https://doi.org/10.1080/17517575.2015.1036927S303324103Cardoso, H. L., Urbano, J., BrandĂŁo, P., Rocha, A. P., & Oliveira, E. (2012). ANTE: Agreement Negotiation in Normative and Trust-Enabled Environments. Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 261-264. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-28786-2_33Chu, X. N., Tso, S. K., Zhang, W. J., & Li, Q. (2002). Partnership Synthesis for Virtual Enterprises. 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COIN@AAMAS2015
COIN@AAMAS2015 is the nineteenth edition of the series and the fourteen papers included in these proceedings demonstrate the vitality of the community and will provide the grounds for a solid workshop program and what we expect will be a most enjoyable and enriching debate.Peer reviewe
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